Surgical correction of deep venous reflux is a valuable adjunct in treatment of selected patient with lower limb venous ulcer. Deep venous obstruction and superficial reflux is must be corrected first. Sustained venous ulcer healing and reduced ambulatory venous hypertension can be achieved in patients with both primary and secondary deep venous insufficiency. When direct valve repair is possib...

We have reviewed 15 patients with infected total knee replacements after removal of the prosthesis, rigorous debridement, antibiotic irrigation, and prolonged systemic antibiotics. Infection was permanently eradicated in all patients; they were left with a functioning limb, on which they could walk with either a caliper (8 patients), a simple splint (3), crutches, or sticks. Three were disappoi...

Individuals with upper-limb amputations may currently use artificial limbs controlled with signals from their residual muscles. Pattern recognition, one type of advanced control, uses the patterns produced by several muscles to control prosthesis movements. This article describes a new way to test this control by using a virtual environment performance test called the Target Achievement Control...

The Locked-in syndrome (pseudo-coma) describes patients who are awake and conscious but no producing speech, limb or facial movements. Acute ventral pontine lesions are its most common cause. We describe a case of ischemic lesion in the basal pons, due to thrombosis of the basilar artery in the middle portion. The patient remained comatose for some days, needing artificial respiration; under an...

background new drugs are increasingly used to induce analgesia during surgeries. this study compared the analgesic effects of paracetamol and magnesium sulfate. methods sixty patients with american society of anesthesiologists (asa) class i or ii patients who were candidates for surgery of the lower limbs were randomly divided into three equal groups who were age and gender matched. group 1 rec...

background: single leg drop landing is one of the common sport activities that have greater likelihood of leading to traumatic oflower extremity. however, there is limited understanding of biomechanics of this maneuver. hence, this study aimed to compare the activities of lower limb muscles during pre- and post phases of single leg drop landing. methods: this semi-experimental research of 13 ph...

introduction: based on the previous studies, we know that the hemispheric lateralization defects, increase the probability of psychological disorders. we also know that dominant limb is controlled by dominant hemisphere and limb preference is used as an indicator for hemisphere dominance. in this study we attempted to explore the hemispheric dominance by the use of three limbs (hand, foot and e...

Since the early middle of last century, use of artificial robotic hands in the field of rehabilitation has been associated with prosthetic devices used for the therapy of upper limb deficiency. Artificial manipulators of the last century were used in general for industrial applications or for service tasks of telemanipulation. In the last three decades, service robotics developed very rapidly. ...